How it works
Spectersync is a hosted workspace over the CMSes you already publish on. Connect a site, pull your content in as clean markdown, edit in the browser or with AI recipes, then review every change as a diff before it goes live.
The workflow
Step
Create a workspace and add a Shopify store, a WordPress site, a Ghost blog, or a Webflow site — or all of them. Spectersync handles the OAuth or API-key handshake and tests the connection before continuing, so a wrong credential fails loudly up front, not halfway through a sync.
Step
Spectersync pulls every post into your workspace as clean markdown — title, tags, status, dates, slugs, and SEO fields all normalized to a consistent shape. Nothing is touched on the live site; you are working on a faithful copy of your archive.
Step
Make a quick change in the browser editor, or point an AI recipe at the whole archive — a bulk rewrite, a meta-description sweep, an internal-linking pass, a translation. Because the recipe sees every post at once, it links accurately, matches your voice, and avoids duplicates.
Step
Every change is shown as a diff before anything ships. Approve a single post or a whole batch, and Spectersync publishes back to each CMS, pacing itself under the platform rate limits. Only what you approve goes live — your workspace and your live site end the run identical.
Under the hood
The short version is four steps. The longer version is four steps plus the machinery that makes a bulk edit across thousands of posts arrive intact.
Edit in your workspace and it publishes; change a post in the CMS and Spectersync pulls it back. Every post round-trips with its frontmatter — title, tags, status, slug, SEO fields — preserved.
Nothing publishes blind. Before a push, you see exactly which posts would be created, updated, or flagged — and what changed in each one — so a bulk AI pass is never a leap of faith.
If a post changed on both ends since the last sync, Spectersync flags the conflict and shows you both versions instead of silently overwriting either side.
Outbound changes are queued and paced per platform. Spectersync knows each CMS’s limits and backs off on 429s, so a 5,000-post run arrives intact rather than timing out.
Connecting, pulling, editing, and reviewing are free. Credits are spent only when an AI recipe processes your content — your bill tracks the heavy lifting, not the housekeeping.
Text and structure round-trip cleanly; the rarer edge cases (complex Ghost cards, Gutenberg blocks, Webflow embeds) are preserved verbatim. The Capabilities matrix lists exactly what each connector does today.
Prefer to run it yourself?
The hosted workspace is the fastest way to start. If you’d rather keep your content as files on disk, the local editions run the whole two-way sync on your Mac — with the file-watching, sync-queue, and “what leaves your Mac” details spelled out in the desktop walkthrough.
A signed, supported desktop app and a free open-source edition — both sync your CMS to a local markdown folder so any AI tool or script can edit it.
File watching, sync queues, conflict detection, and exactly what leaves your Mac — the deep local walkthrough covers all of it.
Connect a platform, pull to markdown, edit, review, publish — only what you approve goes live.